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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 291 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.

Today, we're bringing you a special episode.

Scientists have long believed the source of the pandemic can be traced back to bats.

Pioneering research by Australian veterinarian Dr. Hume Field, more than 20 years ago,

showed why bats are an important host of some of humanity's most feared viruses.

Bloomberg senior editor Jason Gale recently caught up with Hume to hear more about how the SARS-CoV-2 virus got from bats

to people.

It's been a year since COVID-19 emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

A lot has been learned in that time, but H Kim says questions still remain about the coronavirus's origins.

What we don't have is it really is much more information about where it's come from.

And understandably, all the focus has been on getting the diagnostics up,

getting the human treatment protocols up. But we still don't have

much information, at least published, about where this virus may have come from.

Humor is part of an international task force set up by the Lancet Medical Journal. He says at least

two things have frustrated the research efforts, international travel restrictions

and politics.

One of the unfortunate things and part of it is the circumstance of COVID-19 disease

and the inability to travel and shutdowns and stuff like that is that that investigation

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